Tony Blair is accurate – what Labour is offering is a choice between the distant past and a more recent pastIt seems that between now and 2020 we can’t do any politics,it will just be done to us. The Tories, no longer hampered by the moral compass of Nick Clegg and co (remember them?), and will dismantle the public sector until all that is left is the decomposing corpse of the welfare state. The left will fiddle while Islington burns.
This is the post-election scenario retrodden daily,in which the electorate is entirely passive and government is the process by which the already powerful tramp down on the powerless. This is pretty much the narrative of Labour, a post-traumatic stress disorder replacing any thought-through strategy. This is why we are in the midst of this utterly dysfunctional leadership contest that possibly makes sense whether you are in the Labour party. But that’s pushing it.
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Source: theguardian.com